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<h5 class="subsubsection">9.32.3.1 Special Characters</h5>
<p><a name="index-line-comment-character_002c-PowerPC-1628"></a><a name="index-PowerPC-line-comment-character-1629"></a>The presence of a &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>&rsquo; on a line indicates the start of a comment
that extends to the end of the current line.
<p>If a &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>&rsquo; appears as the first character of a line then the whole
line is treated as a comment, but in this case the line could also be
a logical line number directive (see <a href="Comments.html#Comments">Comments</a>) or a preprocessor
control command (see <a href="Preprocessing.html#Preprocessing">Preprocessing</a>).
<p>If the assembler has been configured for the ppc-*-solaris* target
then the &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">!</span></samp>&rsquo; character also acts as a line comment character.
This can be disabled via the <samp><span class="option">-mno-solaris</span></samp> command line
option.
<p><a name="index-line-separator_002c-PowerPC-1630"></a><a name="index-statement-separator_002c-PowerPC-1631"></a><a name="index-PowerPC-line-separator-1632"></a>The &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">;</span></samp>&rsquo; character can be used to separate statements on the same
line.
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